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1174th Plenary Meeting of the Permanent Council

1174th Plenary Meeting of the Permanent Council

This Analysis examines the draft Bill of the Act “to provide for the updating of the regulation of media and defamation matters and for matters consequential or ancillary thereto”. It was commissioned by the Office of the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media from Dr Joan Barata Mir, Independent Media Freedom Expert.

Methods of work of the Permanent Council in 2018. The Permanent Council adopted Decision No. 1285 on the extension of the mandate of the OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe. Russia’s ongoing aggression against Ukraine and illegal occupation of Crimea. Situation in Ukraine and the need to implement the Minsk agreements. Recently adopted law in Latvia on the status of participants in the Second World War. Violations of freedom of the media in the United States of America. Human rights violations at the Guantánamo Bay detention facility. The murder of Mr. O. Ivanović (Serbia, Annex 1; Russian Federation, Annex 2). Human rights violations concerning the Memorial Human Rights Centre in the Russian Federation. Conviction of journalist Mr. A. Mukhtarli in Azerbaijan. Priorities of Kazakhstan as a non-permanent United Nations Security Council member for the years 2017 and 2018, and a ministerial-level debate on “Building a regional partnership in Afghanistan and Central Asia as a model to link security and development.” Democracy and rule of law in Spain (Spain, Annex 3). Parliamentary elections in Hungary, to be held on 8 April 2018. Parliamentary elections in Luxembourg, to be held on 14 October 2018.

871st Plenary Meeting of the Forum for Security Co-operation

871st Plenary Meeting of the Forum for Security Co-operation

871st Plenary Meeting of the Forum for Security Co-operation

Extension of the mandate of the OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek.

Extension of the mandate of the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan.

The analysis of certain provisions of the basic law of the Kyrgyz Republic ‘On election of the President of the Kyrgyz Republic and Deputies of the Jogorku Kenesh of the Kyrgyz Republic’ in relation to the provisions regulating activities of the Internet-based media in the campaign period against the backdrop of international treaties, the Constitution of the Kyrgyz Republic, the national legislation was conducted in September 2017. The expert suggests establishing legal obligation on the part of the state to provide for the freedom of expression in the campaign period, as well as provide the same rights to the Internet-based media as pertains to the mainstream media and to drop the notion of the Internet-based medium, unless it is modified according to the international standards. The full text of the analysis is available in Russian only.